Tasmanian Devils are dying from an unusual communicable cancer, which is apparently spread when animals bite one another. Researchers are exploring ways to save them — including moving healthy animals ...

A 14-month-old Tasmanian Devil bites the trouser leg of his keeper at Devil Ark in Australia's New South Wales state, in April 2012. Could the Tasmanian devil, a ferocious marsupial threatened by ...

An Australian woman had a wild encounter in her living room on Wednesday. According to The Guardian, Kirsten Lynch was relaxing inside her Hobart home, located on the Australian island state of ...

Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) might be small creatures, but their appetite and effect on their environment are ...

A week or so ago, Ann Maree Pearce, a government cytogeneticist from Australia's island state, Tasmania, and colleagues said in a Nature news report that a nasty facial cancer affecting the Tasmanian ...

WASHINGTON, April 9 (Reuters) - A fox-sized marsupial predator that roamed Australia from about 23 to 12 million years ago had plenty of bite to go along with its bark. But while it was certainly ...

About 20 years ago, a female Tasmanian devil living in northeast Tasmania developed a facial tumor. When she eventually died, she left some of her cancer cells behind. Her tumor lived on to kill ...

An Australian woman found a Tasmanian devil in her house after mistaking it for her dog's stuffed toy, according to a report. Kirsten Muhle Lynch At least this loony Tasmanian devil didn’t bring a ...

A cancer that has wiped out 70 percent of wild Tasmanian devils became contagious by "switching off" certain genes that would otherwise enable the immune system to recognize it, a new study finds.

A wild Tasmanian devil wandered into a home in Hobart, Australia, on the island state of Tasmania, and caused a bit of chaos before safely departing An Australian woman had a wild encounter in her ...